From: "matthew piscioneri" <mpiscioneri-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: HAB: An Unhappy Marriage Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:50:47 Dear List, I have just read James Bohman's essay *Habermas, Marxism and social theory* in the recent Dews' anthology _Habermas: A critical reader_ ( Blackwell, 1999); and have difficulties reconciling Bohman's statements re Habermas's explicit borrowings from Luhmann's version of a social systems functionalism with Habermas's extensively documented aversion to Luhmann's *metabiological* social analyses. Is there an alternative reading of the Habermas/Luhmann debate which I am unaware of? Any pointers please? I have only just got over my obsession with an implicit cybernetic-systems motif in Habermas's 1970s work; which I now realise is annulled by JH's emphasis on the contingencies of the generation of social movements. Now there's Bohman's connecting up of Luhmann and Habermas. What next? A reading of JH as a neo-Nietzschean :-) MattP _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com --- from list habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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